Happy New Year is the first couplet, which is posted on the right side, and Happy Holidays is the second couplet, which is posted on the left side.
When facing the front door, living room and other locations to post couplets, the upper couplet should be posted on the right, the lower couplet should be posted on the left, the height of the two sides of the same, to maintain a certain width in the middle of the cross-checks are pasted on the top of the couplet in the center position.
The distinction between the couplet and the couplet is a pair of sentences, the first sentence is the first line, the second sentence is the second line. There are five main ways to distinguish between the couplet and the couplet, namely, tone and level, cause and effect of content, time sequence, space size and language habits.
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When posting, first look at the banner, if the banner is read from left to right. Then the left side is the top line. If it is read from right to left, then the right side is the top line. Traditionally, the right is the first line, the left is the second line. Down to distinguish between the couplet of the upper and lower couplet, can be distinguished according to the content, look at the last word of the left and right couplet, if it is oblique, is the upper couplet, but flat is the lower couplet, need to be combined with the content of the couplet to determine the general couplet is required to narrow the flat collection.
Couplets, also known as couplets, door-to-door, spring stickers, spring couplets, pairs, peach symbols, couplets (because of the ancient times more hanging in the halls of residence pillar and named), is a kind of couplet literature, originated in the peach symbols. It is a pair of statements written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood or pillars. Simple words with deep meaning, neat pairs of words, harmonious level and oblique, the same number of words, the same structure, is a unique art form of the Chinese language.